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31  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: MQA decoding issue on: March 10, 2018, 09:16:38 pm
Hi Peter,
I have sent you an email with the log file, containing the MQA download and decoding of the Robert Plant album mentioned in this topic.
The problem is, that it's decoded onto 48/24 instead of 96/24.
Kind regards
Richard
32  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: MQA decoding issue on: March 10, 2018, 08:55:43 pm
Hi Peter,

that's the topic for the MQA decoding issue on my music PC.
Looking it through again I just realized that I didn't email you the log file yet. I apologise and I try to email you one within the next hour.

Kind regards
Richard
33  Ultimate Audio Playback / Music Storage and convenient playback / Re: No coverart with NAS on: March 10, 2018, 08:40:00 pm
Quote
1) Playing music from my Synology NAS:
When I play flac files in unattended mode, what I do most of the time, no wallpaper appears at all.
When I play wav files in in unattended mode, I get the wallpaper...

Hi Peter,
the posts above describe the wallpaper issue when using a NAS.
In attended mode coverart always works fine.
In unattanded mode it works well for WAV files now, but coverart never shows up for FLAC files, although all tracks are already loaded before playback starts.
BTW, this is the only problem when my audio PC loads the music files directly from the NAS.

Kind regards
Richard
34  Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: 2.09 sound quality on: March 09, 2018, 02:20:34 pm
Hi there,

I was using SFS 20,19 for a longer time, but I am back to 10,19 again. It sounds somehow smoother, less distorted maybe.
I am looking foreward what 5,19 will bring when available in the next release.

Peter, I would like to ask you if release 1.10 will maybe (hopefully) bring some improvements like:
- wallpaper issue for FLAC files from NAS
- MQA decoding issue, when no appropriate DAC is installed (I still cannot decode MQA higher than 48kHz).

Kind regards
Richard
35  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: MQA decoding issue on: December 14, 2017, 10:44:09 pm
Peter,

I also deactivated the only one virus scanner (Microsoft Defender) and that didn't help.

Kind regards
Richard
36  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: MQA decoding issue on: December 14, 2017, 10:21:56 pm
Peter,
 
the Decode HDCD/MQA button is active (red). Otherwise the MQA logo would not include the bitrate. Everything is working fine with 44100 and 48000 files.

Other users descibed above, that they had to plug in a DAC to get the 88200 and 96000 decoding.

I will switch off the virus scanner, we will see...

thanks a lot and
kind regards
Richard
37  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: MQA decoding issue on: December 14, 2017, 07:46:03 pm
Hi Peter,

my Stealth Mach II is used as audio PC only and is not connected to the internet.

My Microsoft Surface 3 Pro with Windows 8.1 on it is used as music PC and since more than half a year to stream from Tidal. Therefore I never used XXHE on the PC to play music until 2 days ago, when I plugged in the ifi and installed a driver for it. I did that only to have the MQA files decoded the right way. The ifi works fine in attended mode up to 192/24. But it does not show the running time of a track though (it always shows 00:00).
I don't understand now why music can be played now up to 192/24, but MQA decoding works up to 48000 only.

As you suggested before, I would like to try it with the NOS1-a, but I have to install a driver for this on my music PC and don't know, how to do that.

Kind regards
Richard
38  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: MQA decoding issue on: December 14, 2017, 12:51:39 pm
Peter,

yes, I always delete everything from the researvh folder before I try it again.

The MQA logo is there incuding sample rate. That's fine.

As long as in the downloaded file the ID-tag ORIGINALSAMPLERATE is not higher than 48000 everything works fine. If its higher like 96000 or 192000 the track will be decoded to 48000 and won't play because of this discrepancy.
Only when I take the MQA album id out of the album name, it will play, but with 48000 only.

I will try it with my NOS1-a, but don't know yet where to find the driver for it and how to install it.

Kind regards
Richard
39  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: MQA decoding issue on: December 13, 2017, 06:46:17 pm
Hi there,

thanks a lot for all your advices.
For some hours now I tried different DACs and settings for Microsoft Surface 3 Pro with Windows 8.1 running on it.

Now I plugged in my ifi iDSD DAC into the USB port installed the audio driver and finally got it to play my PCM files up to 192/24 with XXHE. The settings for the audio decive in shared mode are set to 192/32.
What's still strange though, when playing in attanded mode, the time counter always shows 00:00, but music plays in ok quality.

But still XXHE doesn't decode MQA higher than 48/24.
I don't know, what to do now to solve this problem. Are there any ideas?

Kind regards
Richard
40  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: MQA decoding issue on: December 05, 2017, 09:08:26 am
Ramesh,

thanks for this info.
The problem probably is located here. But for the Realtec speaker, the sound device on my Microsoft Surface Pro, the max. values are 48/24. Therefore I am still limited to 48kHz.

Is there any idea how to solve that?

Kind regards
Richard


41  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: MQA decoding issue on: December 04, 2017, 11:37:29 pm
Hi Peter,

I started to test MQA today and installed 2.09 on my music PC.

I have the same decoding problem with the same error message like above: "Something went wrong with FLAC decoding...".
When I download MQA files nevertheless, all of them are decoded to 48 ones and will not play.
I cannot solve this issue.

Kind regards
Richard
42  Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: 2.09 sound quality on: December 03, 2017, 11:01:08 am
Hi there,

SFS=8.00 or 8.80 sounds pretty good but demands a mid or low filter. Therefore I am not really convinced about it.

SFS=10 with second highest filter is good too. Adding just 0.24, so SFS=10.24 already sound pretty different, not as good as 10.00

I still wonder why release 2.09 reacts in such a sensible way to small changes of SFS (compared to previous XXHE releases).
Peter, could you give us an explanation for this?

Kind regards
Richard
43  Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: 2.09 sound quality on: November 29, 2017, 07:09:59 pm
Peter, I can enter 9 for SFS as you wrote. But, the next time XXHE will be started it will be set to 8.

Kind regards
Richard
44  Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: 2.09 sound quality on: November 29, 2017, 06:59:34 pm
Hi there,

The max SFS value is set high enough.

I now also tried to to change the SFS values with tab. Same thing: uneven digits before the "." are changed to the next lower even one.

What's interesting: When I do this during music playback, after pressing Alt X, uneven values are accepted, but will be rounded down to the next even afterwards.

Kind regards
Richard
45  Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: 2.09 sound quality on: November 29, 2017, 04:47:38 pm
Hi Peter,

when I enter for SFS 11 it's changed to 10
When I enter 11.7 it's changed to 10.7

Here it looks like that there is no uneven digit allowed before the "." except 1

Kind regards
Richard
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